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British & For. Med. – Chirurg. Review April 1872

Dr J. W. Ogle on Hereditary Transmission – gives some curious cases of inheritance for 4 generations of deficient phalanges & numerous references to various recent papers on inheritance, which may be usefully consulted by any one investigating the subject—

[Variation 2d ed. 1: 458: "Many other deviations of structure, of a nature almost as anomalous as supernumerary digits, such as deficient phalanges,29 thickened joints, crooked fingers, &c., are, in like manner, strongly inherited, and are equally subject to intermission, together with reversion, though in such cases there is no reason to suppose that both parents had been similarly affected.30
29 Dr. J. W. Ogle gives a case of the inheritance of deficient phalanges during four generations. He adds references to various recent papers on inheritance, 'Brit. and For. Med.-Chirurg. Review,' Ap. 1872."]